Weekend Vid Picks: Monty Python Reunited! (Again!)

Forty years of Monty Python, and I don’t know anyone worth talking to who doesn’t hold them up as genius. And while the fact that they stopped working together for 20 years or so was a huge drag, it just makes their latest reunion hijinks all the more sweet.

The team also went on this Wednesday’s Late Night With Jimmy Fallon to…well, to pretty much just bring chaos to the Late Night stage in a four-part “interview.” Jimmy Fallon does a great job in this first part of playing along with the gang and allowing them to shine, while remaining very, very conscious of the fact that he’s in the presence of greatness. The iconic image of this interview is Jimmy sitting on the floor in between them, dwarfed. That’s before the water fight, of course.

The other big Python recent event was An Evening Without Monty Python in Los Angeles, a staged production of Python sketches directed by Eric Idle. The show closed Oct. 4 — did you not get to see it? Well, no worries, here’s a video of Eric Idle telling you all about it! Warning: May inspire urge to build time machine and buy tickets.